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514510

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what role her Department had in the selection of appointed local authority heads of social services departments from 1985 to 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
	uin	34804
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2016 answer text <p>The Home Secretary has not had any involvement in appointing local authority heads of social services departments.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 28/04/2016 16:45:46 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 57219 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

690493

	registered interest
	date	17/02/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to publish the social justice green paper before the 2017 Budget statement.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	64250
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2017 answer text <p>Our green paper on social justice will be published in due course. It will set out our approach to tackling child poverty and disadvantage.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 22/02/2017 11:57:24 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

911173

	registered interest
	date	24/05/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to Spring Budget 2017, how much of the additional funding for social care (a) was spent in 2017-18 and (b) is forecast to be spent in (i) 2018-19 and (ii) 2019-20 to fund social care providers paying the National Living Wage, broken down by NUTS 1 region and local authority.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	147846
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2018 answer text <p>The improved Better Care Fund is given to local authorities via a section 31 grant for the following purposes:</p><ul><li>meeting adult social care needs;</li><li>reducing pressures on the NHS, including supporting more people to be discharged from hospital when they are ready; and</li><li>ensuring that the local social care provider market is supported.</li></ul><p>We do not collect specific data on how much local authorities have spent, or forecast to spend, on funding social care providers.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 06/06/2018 15:20:30 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

922392

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the ability of local authorities to meet their statutory duties for adult social care.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	152695
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p>As part of our oversight of local government expenditure, we consider the financial stability and service delivery of individual authorities, liaising with other departments, including the Department of Health and Social Care in relation to adult social care. On this basis, we have no immediate concerns on the ability of local authorities to fulfil their statutory duties. We recognise the pressures on local government which is why we have provided an additional £2 billion to adult social care over the three years to 2019-20.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 21/06/2018 16:03:56 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak previous answer version 63773 answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

825551

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to allow local authorities to use money raised via the social care precept for both adult and children's social care.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	123686
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>As set out at the Spending Review 2015 the social care precept gives local authorities who are responsible for social care the ability to raise new funding to spend exclusively on adult social care.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 23/01/2018 13:23:02 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

828874

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the average waiting times for money management arrangements for personal care budgets in social care to be put in place by each local authorities; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	124492
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this information. Policy responsibility for Personal Care Budgets lies with the Department of Health and Social Care.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 29/01/2018 11:35:09 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

932176

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much was spent by local authorities in real terms on adult social care services between 2010 and 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
	tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
	uin	158786
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not publish this information. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government publishes estimates of adult social care expenditure as part of the local authority revenue expenditure and financing statistical series, but these are primarily presented as net current expenditure and in nominal terms only. The most recent publication covers outturn data for 2016-17 which can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing</a></p><p>NHS Digital do publish information on spending in real terms in their Adult Social Care Activity and Finance Report which is available for years up to 2016-17 at <a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/adult-social-care-activity-and-finance-report" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/adult-social-care-activity-and-finance-report</a>. Note that these figures are presented in gross current expenditure terms which includes client contributions.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 03/07/2018 15:39:53 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

436274

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with which external stakeholders his Department has discussed contingency planning for provider failure in the social care market.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	19073
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>In 2013, Government carried out a public consultation (‘Oversight in Adult Social Care’) on a detailed set of proposals for market oversight and provider failure.</p><br /><p>The feedback from stakeholders including individual local authorities, local authority membership organisations, individual care providers, provider representative organisations and commercial experts formed the basis of a number of reforms in the Care Act 2014 that ensures people do not go without the care they need when their providers’ business fails. This includes:</p><br /><ol><li>Duties on local authorities to temporarily meet the needs of individuals and their carers where their provider is unable to carry on because of business failure. Statutory guidance to support local authorities to discharge these functions was subject to a full public consultation and can be found at:</li></ol><br /><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/care-act-2014-statutory-guidance-for-implementation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/care-act-2014-statutory-guidance-for-implementation</a></p><br /><p>The Department also worked with the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, the Local Government Association, and the Local Government Information Unit (LGiU) to produce a guide to support local authorities to develop contingency plans for provider failure in the social care market. Numerous stakeholders, including local authorities, providers and insolvency practitioners were involved in the development of the guide and participated in the LGiU consultation exercises.</p><br /><p>The guidance can be found at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.lgiu.org.uk/report/care-and-continuity-guide/" target="_blank">http://www.lgiu.org.uk/report/care-and-continuity-guide/</a></p><br /><p>The Department commissioned the consultancy Cordis Bright to produce guidance to support local authorities with market oversight at the local level to enable them to meet their new responsibilities under the Care Act for ensuring continuity of care in the event of a provider business failure. The materials were produced following extensive input from both councils and providers.</p><br /><ol start="2"><li>New duties for the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to oversee the finances of care providers which are either large or whose provision is geographically concentrated as their financial failure would make it difficult for local authorities to discharge their statutory responsibilities.</li></ol><br /><p>The CQC oversight function will provide early warning to relevant local authorities in the event that one of these providers is likely to fail and their services cease. This will allow local authorities time to implement contingency plans.</p><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 16/12/2015 17:43:01 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

381125

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to page 11 of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services annual budget survey, published on 4 June 2015, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policy of the findings that seven per cent of directors who responded to that survey are fully confident that planned savings can be met in 2016-17 and that a smaller proportion of directors is so confident in respect of 2017-18.
	tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
	uin	2452
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2015 answer text <p>Funding decisions for 2016/17 onwards, including on adult social care, are subject to the forthcoming Spending Review.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department will continue to work closely with local government and the National Health Service to understand future funding requirements, including continuing scope and opportunities to make savings, to support decisions relating to the upcoming Spending Review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 23/06/2015 10:41:00 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

657025

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which organisation is responsible for the inspection and regulation of social care services commissioned and delivered by local authorities; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	57247
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2016 answer text <p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care providers in England.</p><p> </p><p>All providers of regulated activities, including National Health Service and independent providers, have to register with CQC and follow a set of fundamental standards of safety and quality below which care should never fall.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 15/12/2016 10:18:21 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper